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Potential Security

Potential Security, professional service in Richmond BC

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About Potential Security


Guards, mobile patrol, cameras, event security and traffic control run from a single Delta office, with eighteen cities named as the service area.

The company offers ten service lines. Guard services, mobile patrol and alarm response make up the conventional core, and around those sit camera systems, video monitoring, event security, parking enforcement, loss prevention, traffic control and managed cybersecurity, a wider mix than the guarding label suggests. All of it runs from one office on 88 Avenue in Delta, with eighteen cities named as the service area and Richmond among them. Each of those cities is covered from that Delta address, so a call about a Richmond property reaches the same line, 604 799 3575.

On the guarding side, the company says it hires licensed guards, and its guard page puts individuals and VIPs alongside its manned guarding work, with the team available around the clock throughout the year and emergency mobile support outside business hours. Mobile patrols travel in fully marked vehicles, on foot, or both depending on what a site needs, and the listed duties take in surveillance, parking, supervision and inspection beyond the patrol round itself. Guard licensing, incident documentation, a confirmed patrol schedule, response procedures and supervisor site checks are the practical details a client will want written into the agreement.

Traffic control is the area where credentials are spelled out. Controllers hold current provincial certifications and take regular training to maintain them, covering traffic control certification, first aid and site-specific safety orientation, and that crew works 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Equipment on the traffic control page is listed just as precisely, from STOP/SLOW paddles and electronic message boards through barricades, cones, two-way radios and high-visibility clothing.

Potential Security guards in black insulated jackets with reflective banding, four lined up in a parking lot and two posted at a building entrance beneath a welcome banner.

For camera work, the specification runs to high-definition units with night vision, motion detection and real-time monitoring, plus cloud storage for footage, remote access, instant alerts for suspicious activity and facial recognition applied to access control, with integration into alarm systems. Event work stretches from music festivals and carnivals to sporting events and private gatherings, where guards screen visitors and check invitations, and plain clothes can be arranged on request.

Sector pages show where the work lands: construction sites, retail, warehouses, shopping malls, hotels, corporate offices, campuses, municipalities, industrial sites, and shelters and social housing. The mobile patrol page fills in the rest of the field work, from marked-vehicle rounds to patrols made on foot. Operating since 2010, the business takes written enquiries at [email protected], and a photo gallery and a careers page sit alongside the service pages.

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Where they work from

11657 88 Ave Delta, BC V4C 3C2
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